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A piem for pie day
Pie day today. Well, not "pie day" but π Day. A day to celebrate all things to do with π. And this is a piem (that should be πem, I guess): Pie. I wish I could determine pi Eureka cried...
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The need for environmental education
I had an email exchange yesterday with an old friend who's in the environmental education business and who is as disgusted as I am about the unprovoked carnage in Ukraine. They wondered if our interest in the environment wasn't rather trivial...
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Kirill's bravery and the DfE
A tribute today to the 12-year old Russian schoolboy [Kirill] who challenged his teacher's statement that the war in Ukraine was necessary to halt Kyiv’s aggression. He argued with her when she said that Ukraine was a Nazi state and...
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A model music curriculum for England
Last year, the DfE published a model music curriculum. It escaped my attention but I've now read it. The Foreword and the introduction to the document makes these points: The Model Music Curriculum [MMC] is designed to introduce the next...
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The DfE's new model curriculum
They've been quietly planning to change the curriculum down in Sanctuary Buildings. But this has nothing to do with climate or other environmental issues; far from it. It's a change to something much more significant – history. The government plans...
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Hide your dirty oil and money
There have been a number of campaigns of late to persuade investment funds to disinvest from oil, gas and coal industries. The motivation, as I understand it, was to reduce the flow capital to these industries and hence to speed...
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World ranking coincidences
The EE Maillist had news the other day that the World List of Sustainability Researchers and the World Ranking of Sustainability Researchers are being updated for 2022. We're invited to put ourselves forward for inclusion. The deadline is 25th February...
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NEU on the DfE's draft strategy
These are the points made about curriculum in the National Education Union's response to the DfE's draft strategy which says: Within schools, the science, geography and citizenship programmes in the National Curriculum at both primary (KS1-2) and secondary (KS3-4) cover...
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Dieting for the planet
What is a climatarian diet, and can it save the world? – Pebble magazine (essential reading) has been looking into this idea. In a nutshell, it says (no pun surely intended) the diet involves eating with the planet in mind....
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An Appreciation of Professor Andy Stables
This post is an appreciation of Andy Stables the researcher and the man. It is written by Dr Alin Olteanu, a member of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Cultures of Research at RWTH Aachen University. Alin gave this as an oration at Andy's...
